Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stop Crying - Part 2]

Great work!

This was great, i really loved this as a final product. Episode one was great as well, a cool thing is how both parts have almost completely different styles. In my review i will briefly explain each aspect of this flash.

The graphics were good, they did the job but i wasnt totally amazed. The drawings were pretty good, but sometimes they lacked a little detail. The animation was good at some points but in general, it was a little off, it seemed a little werid watching it. But i enjoyed the backrounds, character design and effort you put into everything. Your style was great, mostly because of your awesome story. Its cool to see a flash, dedicated to a loved one, or maybe this story was based on real life experiences. Either way i really liked it, it could have been presented in a slightly more energetic way however. The feel was good, it seemed peaceful with that music playing quietly in the backround. The sound was also good in this movie, but i would have loved to see more sound effects. The voice acting seemed pretty good, just the right amount of expression and characterization. The audio quality was nice too.

Overall very good job. Im still sorry about your brother and i hope you and your family are doing well. I know how it feels to lose some one you care about. Anwyays keep up the great work in the next episode. 4/5

[Tears of Red]

LIAR!!!!

I saw the very first image of this and i was like "This guy is a fucking liar" But thats a great thing in the case! I was amazed at that first image, and then i read that its your first flash. I was honestly like WTF! anyways in my review i will explain each aspect briefly, Great Flash Deserve Great Reviews.

The graphics were too good to be in first flash. You must have put effort into each little thing about graphics. From detail in the environments to smooth animation, this had both of those and more. The drawings were sweet, and again i was aamzed at how good they were for a first. The detail was great, and not excessive and i liked how everything was grey,black and white, except the leaves and blood. So great animating style. Your overall style was great, a big thanks should go from you to Rob, who did a fantastic job with the story. But your animating was great, and the feel was as well. The way you presented the idea was awesome. The sound was also really good, i know it was meant not to have any sound effects, and it set the mood having done it that way but without sound effects its hard for me to give higher sound points. Anyways the music was great.

Overall i still cant believe this is your first. Thats just amazing and think of the things youll be doing in the future! So many possibilities! Anyways leave a response if you can, and im already anticipating your next submission. 4/5

immortaltechnique responds:

hey!!!!!!
well this is my first proper flash .. meaning i had experimented with it before ... 3 times?? they were all frame by frames .. and all went for about 5 seconds each?? not worth putting on newgrounds hehe (one of them was a ball moving from side to side.... GREAT!!)
but yeah ... its not my first time drawing on computer eitehr?? hehe so that probably helped out a bit :D
thanks for the review

[The Real Master Chief]

Woo, nice work!

This was great man! It started off so well ,and really got me wondering what the rest was going to be about. I didnt think this was going to be funny at first, but it definotely turned out to be. In my review i will briefly explain each aspect.

The graphics were great, but i especially enjoyed the first 3 pictures. The drawings were nice, they were fairly detail and Master Chief's suit appeared in proportion. THe colours were accurate too. The backrounds were simple, but they did the job. The animation was generally good, but i think the running could have been animated a bit better. Your style was very good, but the way you presented the movie was a little worse than i had expected. I mean it started out kind of dramatic, then it got silly. That made more bad things than good. But i liked the idea when it got going, it was definitely very creative. The feel was good too, the music did a good job of making it all seem HALO like. The sound was great, all the music was very clear and i loved all of it. As i said the music created a more HALO like experience, and they also set the mood. The humour wasnt the greatest i have ever seen but there was definitely some there. This whole thing made me smile.

Overall you did a very good job. And this is deserving of its high score. "Please keep it up with the quality sumbmissions in the future! 4/5

LordMagicPants responds:

Wow. I am very impressed with the time and effort you put into your review. In my response, I will say that this was not a serious piece but a comedy piece with a serious introduction for contrast. I tried my best to duplicate the MC's armor so that Hasselhoff would be believeable a the cheif. Unfortunately, Animation with symbols is not my strong point as seen in the two walking animations. If it had been frame by frame it would have looked a lot nicer but it would have taken 13 years to complete. I tried to integrate pictures for a more realistic experience, mainly because they look nicer and because they save LOTS of time. I believe Music is very important to a flash, and that is why I made several adjustments to audio using my bootlegged copy of "Acid Pro." Humor could be a little less immature but I think this type communicates with all audences. Again, Thank you for your massive review: If you took the time to write it I will take the time to acknowledge it. Rock On!

[Fragile Machine: Oread]

Good.

This was some great work. The graphics were very impressive and i dont know how you did them. What program did you use? Anyways nothing was bad about this, i will explain each aspect breifly in my review.

The graphics were amazing. Really nice 3D. The drawings were sweet, and they had a lot of detail. The backrounds were great too, again they were very detailed. The animation was really smooth too, at some times it was a little difficult to see what was going on. Your style in this movie was good, but its tough to describe. I think the actual style of the movie could be better, and your idea could be presented in a more clear way. The animating style was cool and fun to look at. The sound was also a little unclear, not quality wise, but in the sense that i didnt know what the sounds were representing. The voices were a little tough to here, but they sounded mystic kind of.

Overall its not a wonder that this earned rewards. It was some truely impressive work. Try to work on the things i said, remember theyre only suggestions and i may not know whats best for a movie. Anyways keep up the great work. 4/5

[WW2]

Impressive.

Somehow you made this entertaining and educational. I think thats a first on Newgrounds. Everything was done well, nothing stood out as being bad. In my review i will explain each aspect quickly.

The graphics were good, i liked the sprites you had. The only prolbem is the drawings that werent sprites, the gun fire for example looked plain and undetailed. I think the backrounds did the job despite lacking some detail. The variety of sprites was great. Your style in this was very good, because it was entertaining and educational. That is a very unique and difficult thing to do. The feel was good, the scenes sort of felt liek a real war. The effective use of no music was cool, once again it made the whole thing seem more realistic. The sound effects were great, for each gun there seemed to be a different sound. The audio quality topped everything off nicely. The amount of violence was great, not too much, not too little.

Overall this was great and realy fun to wacth. I say great flash deserve great reviews. So there ya go! 4/5

[(OLD) T&D: The Beginning]

Great.

Wow i didnt even know there was a pilot. But its great to know there is one. I loved BUSted, fucking hilarious, and i havent watched the newest one yet.

The graphics were great in this. The drawings were great and refined. Great colours, backrounds detail and smooth animation too. Great style, with humour and jokes every where. I like your animating style aswell. Different but cool. I really enjoyed the sound in this movie as well. Awesome voice acting and the audio quality topped it off very well. I like your choice of music in the credits. The humour was just awesome in this. Its too bad this was only a pilot and wasnt longer, there would have been more humour in a longer movie.

Overall this is a great start, i wish i saw it before the other episodes. Anyways i hope the one about love will be great! im off to watch and review it now! 4/5

[Len - ep. 1 - part 2/2]

Again nice work!

I still wish the graphics werent fuzzy. The drawings and everything themselves are very very good. Its just the quality of the "movie" itself.

Anyways i liked this one much better. The other was sort of an intro, and in this one there was some action and a made some progress in the story. I forgot to mention the envrionments in my review to part one. As one review said "Post-Apocolyptic" i couldnt have said it better. Thats exactly what they seemed like. The movie quality was a bit better in this one, wasnt quite as fuzzy throughout. The sound was great in this, just like the last but this time for different reasons. The sound effects were what impressed me this time, not the music. The audio quality again was good. Your style didnt really change, it was good in the last part so it will be good again.

Overall this one was better than the last one. This was more enjoyable to watch, and think about while i reviewd. I cant wait until the next one. Keep up the great work!4/5

RonaldRaven responds:

Hey, thanks Chris. Yeah, sorry about the fuzziness. It was sort of a trade-off since the original swf was a huge file itself, and it didn't even have the music and effects that we added in post. So I had to compress the movie to keep it under 5 megs, and well, you can see what happened. I'm glad you enjoyed it, though. Thanks for the review.

[Len - ep. 1 - part 1/2]

Woah....

My question is how do you do graphics liek that!?! Theyre like amazing. Anyways this was good, definitely a great start to what seems like a very promising series. Everything was done well, it was a tiny bit boring but i realize this was more of an intro. In my review i will briefly explain everything.

The graphics, as i have already mentioned, were brilliant. They were so well drawn it was incredible. The colours were amazing too, the detail in the sand was astounding as well. The backrounds were sweet, and even they had their own style. The whole submission had a really unique animating style, but i just loved it. The animation appeared very smooth. Your style was mainly in the animating style. The feel was good, but it was ruined a little bit by the fuzzy quality. The way you presented this was great, seemed pretty professional. I wish more was able to happen, like action and perhaps a little more development in the story. The sound was cool, i really liked that song that was playing in the backround. It was good enough to listen to by itself, and it set the mood in this very well. The audio quality overall seemed to be pretty good.

Overall this was very well done. Congrats on a real quality submission. I hope the next part is even better, im going to watch it now. Great job one this again! 4/5

RonaldRaven responds:

Thank you for the thorough review. Glad you enjoyed it, and you're the first guy to comment on the music, which was original and composed just for this movie. Yeah, we were hoping to put a little more action in it, and sorry about the low vid quality, but we will improve in the future. Hope you enjoy part 2.

[EgoCity Chap V disk1]

Wow, its good to see it back.

I have always liked this series, it has never dissapointed. This one is no exception. I really liked almost everything about this. In my review i wll briefly explain each aspect.

The graphics in this, were noticably great for a couple reasons. I love and always have loved your animating style, it really makes the movie feel cool. The colours and drawings were great, i like how you draw your people. The backrounds werent the most detailed ever but they still looked very cool. The animation was awesome throughout. Your style was great too, partly thanks to your animating style. I love your creative and original plot. The feel was great, i cant really explain it though. The way you presented this movie, was different, but great anyways! The sound is the only thing that i think could use improvement. The sound effects and music were great, but there is something lacking in the voice acting. The basics are there, but you need more expression and variation from character to character. The audio quality was nice.

Overall you did great with this episode just like you did with every other one. I hope this series continues to get better and better in the future. Keep it up! 4/5

[-HitmaN Part 1-]

Great work!

This was great, its good to see a full episode after the trailer. It allows me to see how much progress you have made, and its good to see the real development in the story. This was a little different than the other flash i have seen, i ill explain that and every other aspect briefly in my review.

I liked the graphics they were very artistic. The shadows and such were very well done. I love the first scene with the light shinimg on the dust, it created a really cool effect. I loved the main menu aswell. The colours were nice and i enjoyed the backrounds. Your animating style was impressive in my opinion. Your overall style in this was great too. A big part of this goes to your animating style, which i have alredy said was great. I loved the feel to this movie, how the animation worked with the music and the way this idea was presented. The idea is pretty cool as well. I liked the music a lot for a couple reasons. It was an original piece and really helped create the mood and feel very well. The only thing bad about sound is that lack of sound effects, i dont recall hearing any at all.

Overall very well done. I really liked it, the trailer was a great way to get this noticed. Anyways i hope the next part will be even better. Keep up the great work! 4/5

Nairo responds:

You're review was VERY helpfull, thanks :)